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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. EX library hardback with DJ. Usual stamps/markings. Published 1988 by Cambridge University Press. DJ little grubby with foxing to head edge and page edges tanned otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immeditae despatch from UK. 29C*.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Laminated boards in reasonable condition, corners slightly bumped, mildly rubbed, a little dust and grease along top and lower edge of leaves. Internally, all pages appear fairly clean and bright. No indications of markings or annotation. One inch portion of inner paste down end paper has tear. Seller image provided. For further helpful synopsis and reviews try clicking on 'bookseller image'. Selling books since 1999, all proceeds help fund LOROS Charity Hospice.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

1st edn. 4 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered grey, blue and brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (VG, not price clipped). Pp. various, illus with b&w photos and maps (no inscriptions). German Wines (1st edn 1976), Wines of the Rhone (2nd printing 1979), The Wines of Portugal (1st edn 1982), The Wines of Spain (1st edn 1982).

Original Wraps. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition, published as a paperback original [PBO]. ***Near fine in illustrated glossy card wrappers. The wrappers are clean with just very slight handling marks, and without any tears or creases. No reading creases to the spine. Internally near fine with no paper creases. Very slight fading to the red colour near to the spine on the front and rear covers. There is a name, place and date in pencil to the top of the half-title page 'Harriet Garnett, Islington Town Hall, 5th July 1972 - with a very light 'Withdrawn' stamp, indicating that the book was once held in Islington Council's reference library. No other inscriptions. Spine tight. ***157 pages including five pages of author bibliographies, plus a two-page publisher's competition at the rear. 205 mm x 135 mm. ***'Bryan Stanley William Johnson (5 Feb 1933 - 13 Nov 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. He also produced television programmes and made films. Johnson led and associated with a loose circle of "experimental" authors in Sixties Britain, who included Alan Burns, Eva Figes, Rayner Heppenstall, Ann Quin, Stefan Themerson and Wilson Harris, among others. Many of them contributed to London Consequences, a novel consisting of a palimpsest of chapters passed between a range of participating authors, edited by Margaret Drabble and Johnson. Johnson also made numerous experimental films, published poetry, and wrote reviews, short stories and plays. For many years he was the poetry editor of Transatlantic Review. [Wiki] ***'London Consequences is a 1972 group novel written by twenty writers published for the Festivals of London that year. ***Margaret Drabble and B. S. Johnson conceived and edited the novel "London Consequences". The editors wrote the first and last chapters together, and gave the other novelists involved a brief outline of the two main characters. Each author would write his or her chapter, then pass the accumulating manuscript onto the next author. The interior chapters are by Rayner Heppenstall, Eva Figes, Gillian Freeman, Jane Gaskell, Wilson Harris, Olivia Manning, Adrian Mitchell, Paul Ableman, John Bowen, Melvyn Bragg, Vincent Brome, Peter Buckman, Alan Burns, Barry Cole, Julian Mitchell, Andrea Newman, Piers Paul Read and Stefan Themerson. The published book did not identify authors' individual contributions. The G.L.A.A. (Greater London Arts Association) offered a prize of £100 to anyone who correctly identified each chapter's author. Entry forms appeared at the back of the book. Readers had until 11 Aug 1972 to enter.' [Wiki] ***First impression of the true first edition, published as a paperback original. A scarce item, and of particular interest to collectors of the experimental literary work of B. S. Johnson. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.